In this thread at the Story Games forums, improv exercises that might enhance the storytelling effectiveness and internal trust of a gaming group are being discussed. Jonas Ferry suggests one called Story Spine that I like the sound of. In it the participants tell a shared story based on specified phrases. One person starts and then the turn moves around the table.

Adam Bosarge, Kyle Simons and Jason Faulk have launched their Kickstarter campaign for Worlds in Peril, a Superhero RPG based on the Apocalypse World engine. They look to be doing some interesting things with damage conditions and building characters from multiple mini-playbooks that represent their origin and drive/motivation (e.g. ‘See justice done’), plus I’ve been waiting for a *World game that cracks the superhero genre for a while. This is a strong candidate.

It’s the last few days of the Saga of the Splintered Realm Kickstarter, which is Michael T Desing’s reimagining of classic B/X D&D with simplified rules and unified mechanics.

Pitching yet another version of classic D&D is a hard sell but I’ve followed Splintered Realm through various iterations and Mr Desing has some nice ideas. Take a look at the free playtest version up at DriveThruRPG and see what you think.

I’m a big fan of Rob Donoghue and a follower of his The Walking Mind blog. So, when I read this post, it didn’t take me long to send off for the Sentinels of the Multiverse cooperative comic book card game by Greater Than Games. And what a great decision that turned out to be! Yesterday my wife and 4 year old daughter and I sat down for our first game and we had a blast. Heroes Wraith, Tachyon and Tempest took on Baron Blade in Megalopolis and narrowly prevented him from destroying the planet with his Terralunar Impulsion Beam, before Absolute Zero, Fanatic and Haka were crushed by Grand Warlord Voss’s Intergalactic Army in the savage land of Insula Primalis. More comic book superhero fun and excitement is sure to follow! I highly recommend this game!